Composition Project - Week Three

What a great week for our composition project!  This week the focus was to finish writing the A section melody and to write a melody for a B section.  I took some suggestions from the students on how to make the B section sound different from the A section.  Some suggestions were:

"Change the meter."

"Add rests."

"Use skips instead of steps and repeats."

This week many students brought in their instruments from home.  Lots of recorders and a few violins. A few students had written lyrics at home and brought them in. A few students wrote out some harmonies and had practiced them on piano so they could play them in class this week.  I am so impressed with the amount of students who are taking this project very seriously.  Seeing them work together and write down and play their musical ideas really shows what they have learned in the past two or three years.

Next week we will begin working on how to harmonize the melodies.

Here are a few pictures of the students working this week!